Research Article

Association Game for Conflict Resolution between UEs and Small Cells

Table 1

Notations used.

NotationsMeaning

Set of UEs associated with a cell .
Set of cells that a UE can make an association with.
Bandwidth of a physical resource block.
The maximum number of a physical resource block in a cell.
SINR between a UE and a cell .
Downlink data rate provided to a UE by a cell .
Total data rate that a cell can provide.
Total energy consumed by a cell .
Load of a cell .
Energy efficiency of a cell .
Total energy efficiency of a system.